PRESENTED BY JAYME LINTON

JANUARY 22, 2013

Aligning Assessments to the Common Core State Standards

On the Agenda

Formative vs. Summative Assessments

Common Core State Standards

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

Processes & Templates for Designing Formative Assessments

Web Tools for Delivering Formative Assessments

How often do you…

1. Give end-of-chapter tests, unit tests,

vocabulary quizzes, etc.

2. Record the grades.

3. Return the papers.

4. Move on.

Formative vs. Summative Assessments

Summative

Assessment of learning

Used to assign a grade

After instruction

Autopsy

Formative

Assessment for learning

Used to drive instruction

Ongoing

Check-Up

What are formative assessments?

Formative assessments are…

Ongoing

Informative

Based on student learning outcomes

For students, teachers, and parents

Formal or informal

Designed to drive instruction

Examples:

Exit ticket / Ticket out the door

Thumbs up or down

Pre-test

Progress monitoring

Whether an assessment is formative or summative

depends on what the teacher does afterwards!!

What do the CCSS have to say about assessment?

“The standards stress not only procedural skill but also conceptual understanding, to make sure students are learning and absorbing the critical information they need to succeed at higher levels - rather than the current practices by which many students learn enough to get by on the next test, but forget it shortly thereafter, only to review again the following year.”

http://corestandards.org/about-the-standards/key-points-in-mathematics

Six Instructional Shifts in CCSS for ELA

1. PreK-5 balancing informational and literary text

2. 6-12 knowledge in the disciplines

3. Staircase of complexity

4. Text-based questions and answers

5. Writing from sources

6. Academic vocabulary

Six Instructional Shifts in CCSS for Math

1. Focus strongly where the Standards focus

2. Coherence across and within grades

3. Fluency with procedural skills

4. Deep understanding of key concepts

5. Application flexibly within context

6. Dual intensity with practicing and understanding

Assessment to Meet the CCSS for ELA

Increasing levels of text complexity Students can’t do the complex work required by the CCSS by

reading only low-level texts

Assessments are needed to identify students’ reading level

Work across grade levels to deliberately move students up levels of text complexity

Collect student work and compare with CCSS Anchor Standards – Identify strengths and areas to improve Use exemplars provided by authors of CCSS

Ongoing formative assessments to measure progress toward CCSS outcomes

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

Pay attention not just to content of each standard but also to the verbs

Verbs tell you what students need to be able to do with the content

Types of Knowledge and Cognitive Processes

A helpful process: Taxonomy table

7.SP.8c - Design and use a simulation to generate frequencies for compound events.

Assessment planning template

Think about: What type of knowledge and cognitive process are

required?

What are the key concepts and big ideas?

What essential questions will help you and your students focus on the key concepts and big ideas?

Create daily and weekly formative assessment items and final summative assessment items for each topic of study

Assessment Planning

UP NEXT:

TECHNOLOGY -BASED FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS

Time for Q & A

Tech-Based Formative Assessments

Quick & easy to:

Create

Deliver

Analyze data

Share results with stakeholders

Adjust instruction

Create and implement on any device

My Favorite Tools for Formative Assessments

Socrative

Lots of capability

Works across devices

Self-paced quizzes, exit tickets, and quiz games

Stand-alone multiple-choice, true/false, or short answer questions

Students respond using a computer, tablet, or phone

Report generated immediately following each assessment

Great ideas in the Socrative Garden

Poll Everywhere

Allows you to poll the audience with multiple-choice or open-ended questions

Students can respond via SMS, Twitter, http://pollev.com, or a private link

On-screen instructions assist students with responding

Saves your previous polls so you can review past results at any time

Instantly generate a word cloud from responses

Several options for displaying your questions: embed in a blog or other website, share via Twitter or Facebook, share a live link, embed in PowerPoint, or download for Prezi.

Google Forms

Variety of question types: multiple choice, short answer, checkboxes, choose from a list, scale, and grid

Send Forms through email, share the link, or embed into a website

Google automatically generates a spreadsheet upon creation of a Form

Data within the spreadsheet can be sorted and analyzed quickly and easily

View a summary of responses with just one click, which provides percentages and circle graphs of data collected

Flubaroo enables Google Docs to automatically grade responses to your assessments

Create a wall, post one or many questions or prompts

Share the link with students who then post their responses to the wall as sticky notes

Teachers have the option to moderate responses

Sticky notes can contain text, images, video, and links

Teachers can post image or video prompts or direct students to a website

Students can also include these different types of media in their responses, allowing them to respond creatively

Works great as an exit ticket, a warm-up activity, a status-of-the-class, or a progress

Wallwisher

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